Microsoft.VisualStudio.Data.Services Namespace

The Microsoft.VisualStudio.Data.Services namespace provides various services that allow clients to control the data connection by creating a new connection, or by providing a custom connection UI control, or by taking other actions. Furthermore, clients can have access to the data object mappings between the data source–specific metadata objects and the generic metadata. Also, this namespace contains services that define the hierarchical relationships between nodes in the data view. Note that, in addition to services, there are several interfaces that represent entities implemented internally as classes in DDEX, like for instance the IVsDataExplorerNode.